East Hanningfield, Essex 14.04.19 35 riders met in the spring sunshine at the pretty Essex village of East Hanningfield on the 14th of April for the latest edition of the Essex Roads CC Women’s Race – an excellent number considering there was a round of the National Road Series on the same day, and proof…

WTS Round 2 Virginia Water 07.04.19 While watching the Dwars door Vlaanderen online last week (fantastic race, by the way) I got chatting to a couple of guys who were new to women’s cycling but making the effort to start following it, having decided they wanted more cycling to watch, which is a very good…

WTS Round 1 Milton Keynes 16.03.19 There are lambs in the fields, daffodils for sale on every petrol station forecourt and the supermarkets have been piled high with Easter eggs for three months – that means it’s Spring, and that means the Women’s Team Series is up and running again for another year. Simon Blackwell…

Late in 2018, the former World Road Race and Cyclocross Champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot announced that she was being forced to take four months out of cycling after what she had previously described as “a blood pressure problem” was diagnosed as External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis, also known as EIAE. The condition, which causes the arterial walls…

20.01.19, Snetterton, Norfolk Cold weather early on saw frosty conditions for the Under-10s and Under-12s races, but it had vanished from all but the most shaded sections of the circuit by the time the Youth race ended at 11:30. Unfortunately, that made matters worse: frost melting combined with hundreds of grippy cyclocross tyres makes mud,…

Post-race interview with winner Gemma Melton below! Trinity Park in Ipswich hosts two big races at this time of year: first a round of the National Trophy, the biggest and most important cyclocross series in the country, and then a round of the Eastern League a week later – and with the course left standing…

21.10.18 – Mistley, Essex After the heavy rain at Welwyn Garden City the previous week, sunshine was a welcome sight on Sunday morning as the highly technical sections of the wooded Furze Hill course at Mistley with their muddy corners and slippery exposed roots can become very difficult indeed in the wet. Some courses benefit…

07.10.18 – Princess Helena College, Hertfordshire The CC Ashwell round of this year’s Eastern League featured, for the first time ever, a stand-alone women’s race – and, grateful for a chance to have the course all to themselves rather than sharing it with the 50+ Men age group and for the organisers’ determination to support…

The weather’s turning cooler and, as the rumours begin flying about we’ve stocked up on the migraine tablets ready to try to keep up to date with the latest news – it’s transfer season once again! Just as we have in years past, we’ll be trying to keep track of who’s moving to a new…